8-bit - Urban Dictionary

Skip to main content 8-bit Listen to pronunciation Share definition Refers to the size of the internal registers of the CPUs used in the early days of personal computers and gaming consoles. It does not refer solely to NES or any single computer. Other examples of 8-bit CPUs included: TI-99/4 and TI-99/4A Commodore PET VIC 20 Commodore 64 Apple I learned how to code on my TI-99/4a. 8-bit forever! by ogreesh April 27, 2005 Flag Get the 8-bit mug.

8-bit

Listen to pronunciation Share definition The best console era ever, the NES dominated all and many great games were created like: - Super Mario Bros. 1 - Super Mario Bros. 3 - Mega Man 2 - Mega Man 3 - Castlevania 1-3 - Final Fantasy I - III - Zelda I + II etc. At one time, nintendo had to take all NES back because of problems with overheating! Everyone had an NES in the 80s. The most popular problem was that the cartridges got dusty and you had to BLOW inside the NES and cartridge to make it work again. NES roced. Bari :"The NES changed my life,now I love videogames more than anything" Renke:"Dude, let me blow into the cartridge, I want to play World Cup Soccer!"" by Bari April 24, 2005 Flag Get the 8-bit mug.

8-bit

Listen to pronunciation Share definition 8 binary numbers (ie. 10110101, which is equal to the decimal 181) that form 1 bit. During the late 1970's up through the mid-late 1980's, most commercial CPU's could only count 8-bit numbers, ranging from 0-255. Somehow, people only tend to think of video games when refering to 8-bit things, which it completely innacurate. Many computer systems, as well as video games, were concidered "8-bit." 8-bit processors were eventually replaced by more powerful and faster 16-bit CPU's such as IBM's 8080 line and Motorola's 68000. Computers: Atari x00 series, Commodore series (PET 16, C-64, C-128, etc.), Apple series, and other similar systems that used the 6502, 6800, or Z-80 processors and their varients. Game systems: Atari 2600 and 5200, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Nintendo's Gameboy, Sega Genesis, Colecovision, etc. by ataricom April 28, 2005 Flag Get the 8-bit mug.

8-bit

Listen to pronunciation Share definition Sub-genre of electronic music; Created from modified 8-bit consoles (NES, Atari, Sega Master System, etc.) and cartridges. Listening to 8-bit takes me back to the good ol' days when controlers were the least ergonomic part of the game system by Insane Milkman April 23, 2005 Flag Get the 8-bit mug.

8-bit

Listen to pronunciation Share definition the era of gaming where computers used 8-bit methods of producing the game programing and 8-bit systems were the most up to date The 8-bit era was during the late 1980s and introduced better animation to games. by The Return of Light Joker April 30, 2008 Flag Get the 8-bit mug.

8-bit

Listen to pronunciation Share definition nes was a system that took everything and put it back to place, without the original nintendo you wouldn't have your "PS2's" and "Xbox's". At one point all of nintendos systems were being taken back because of every single problem you had to face due to such a fucken piece of shit at least segas system didn't have catridge defiency but this square piece of ingenious technology couldn't last a day without constant blowing and the constant clicking of the on and off button. the nintendo never got old it just fell apart. by tis indeed the day of reckoning April 25, 2005 Flag Get the 8-bit mug.

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Listen to pronunciation Share definition In financial terms, the cost having intercourse with yo' mama. D-amnnnn, yo' someone lemme git 8-bit, yo' mama's lookin' fly today. by Moogwai March 24, 2009 Flag Get the 8-bit mug.

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